FM Radio

[Panic]

Hello,

I've got an S10, and when i use the radio, i just can't get the fm radio to stereo. I saw on a youtube movie that that S10 displays the word stereo when using the radio. Mine doesn't. The settings are on Stereo. But when i select mono there is no difference. I am from Holland and selected tuner region Europe, so thats not the problem.
Anyone here that knows how to get it on stereo?

Sorry for my bad English

Edit: Firmware 1.03AU

[S10-User]

Hi! I think your S10 need better reception! Even you choose "Stereo" the S10 reduce it to Mono if there is not enough signal. Try it with a local Radiostation which transmitts also in Stereo. Should work if you have a very good signal.
Due to the "bad" Antenna with the headphones you need double of power compared to other radios with telescopic-Antenna (means you need to be mathematicly calculated 16 times closer to the transmitter as with the telescopic-antenna-modell).

Please let me know if it works.

Edit: If you have cable-antenna at home... try it very close to the antenna-socket in the wall or disconnect the cable from the hi-fi-unit and go very close with your headphones to the disconnected connector.

[Panic]

It's the reception. I got it stereo 1 time now, when driving in the car.
It's almost impossible to get the radio stereo here, oh well.

[S10-User]

Tnx for the updae.

You can try with another headphone which use a longer wire as a antenna. Sometimes this would help.
Or try to clamp a thin wire on the ground of the jack-connector (where you see from outside), use approx 1m /3 feet length and let them only falling down. This should increase your reception-situation.

Unfortunately physics law want to have normally a ground and a "hot" end for a antenna. A clasic MP3 will not offer this and use instead the body of the listere as the ground (this will also be the reason why you can have "good" reception during you hold the unit in the hand and you will lose reception if you put the receiver somwhere else). With the mentioned wire you offer a kind of ground for the Antenna.